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June 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Users are inadvertently sharing private chatbot conversations and browsing history via the Meta AI app’s “discover” feed, raising major privacy concerns
The app promotes content sharing under a guise of connection, but many conversations contain sensitive information users likely wouldn’t intend to publish
Experts warn that this unintended oversharing makes the app a serious privacy risk, essentially broadcasting users’ personal data without clear consent

DeepMind and Google Research launched Weather Lab, a research site using a new AI model that can simulate 50 cyclone scenarios up to 15 days in advance
Tested in collaboration with the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the AI model has outperformed traditional models by predicting storm paths about 87 miles closer on average
The tool is intended to augment—not replace—existing forecasting methods and is positioned as a research aid rather than a public warning system

A major Google Cloud Identity outage disrupted services like Replit, LlamaIndex, Weights & Biases, GitHub, Spotify, Twitch, Discord, and more
The outage began late morning PT and was traced to a failure in Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management services
Teams from Replit and others confirmed their platforms were affected, prompting recovery operations and monitoring efforts

Digital banking startup Chime raised $864 million in its IPO at $27 per share, valuing the company at approximately $11.6 billion
Its debut is seen as a key indicator for renewed activity in the fin-tech IPO market, though the valuation is well below a $25 billion private valuation in 2021
The IPO performance could influence other tech and fin-tech firms considering going public amid cautious investor sentiment

Shopify is integrating USDC payments via Coinbase and Stripe, allowing merchants to accept stablecoins that settle in fiat
Stripe’s solution supports USDC on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, charging merchants around 1.5% per transaction without requiring crypto conversion
This move supports growing interest in digital payments and helps mainstream stablecoin use in e-commerce

Did You Know? AI assistants are poised to outnumber humans. It is predicted that there will be more AI assistants in the world than people.

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